Walk This Way!

Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.  A highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, shall not go astray. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it...But the redeemed shall walk there… Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go." (Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 35:8-89, Isaiah 48:17)

I remember the old, old Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein where Igor is gimping along with a cane telling the young Dr. Frankenstein to "walk this way" and he meant it literally, not directionally.

What about the Bible? How many of us are so perfect that we will remember we are called to "walk this way?" I'm just as prone to taking the wrong direction, making the wrong mistakes…but then I hear in my spirit the words: This is the way, walk in it. Maybe not always in those exact words, but words that pretty much say the same thing.

When God tells you something, it is important to walk that way. When we do, wonderful things will happen. It doesn't mean not going through difficult times, but just going through, no matter what is ahead. Taking that narrow road, through the narrow gate, keeps us focused on the Lord. [Walk this way] by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. But the gate is small and the road is narrow that leads to true life. Only a few people find that road. (Matthew 7:13-14)

The way of a fool might seem right to him…thankfully, also, a wise woman listens to advice! Proverbs 12:15 - The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise. When I began attending The Church in Wisconsin I was challenged right off the bat. Would I have been challenged had I not listened to God in so many words telling me to "walk this way; go here?" Would I have continued to remain comfortable and feeling like I had stopped growing? Did I need a kick in the pants to see that God wasn't done with me and needed me on a different track, to walk a different road?

I needed to be challenged. I knew when I sat in the new pew I needed the Word of God to penetrate my heart, to pierce my soul, to cause me to reconsider myself and where I was headed. I look back and can see I had almost become comatose. I was a breath away from walking in another direction. Yet I see God has other plans..."walk this way."

Sometimes He's gentle in His prodding. Sometimes He stops you dead in your tracks. And He wants you to "walk this way" literally and directionally.

My new church's goal is on being a remnant church. It is a church open to receiving people who want to be part of the remnant Church in the last days. That means a totally new level of understanding. It means a deeper relationship with God. It means hearing the truth at any cost. It means a hard word supported in love. The statement of faith, what they believe as a church, is that God's Word is all we need for instruction…no adding to it or taking away from it. It provides all we need for the ongoing and never-ending perfection of His people.

I'm on board with this and I believe I will be learning a lot. I will be convicted, sharpened, honed, humiliated (in a good sense), reduced to no more than what God desires of me. I will also be edified, perfected, sanctified and loved, elevated to where I should be in Him. Pastor Terry has been spent some time awhile back on this verse from Exodus 33:15 - And he said unto Him, "If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." How much do we desire God's presence to be with us in the way we should go, how we should walk, how we will be protected? How much of a difference do I want to see in myself? Walking His way will be the key to securing these things

Philippians 3:12 - Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

Hallelujah, He isn't giving up....